Opinion | My Book Is Horrifying. My Book Is a Lifeline. My Book Is Banned.
Briefly

Last year, a parent at a Virginia school board meeting stepped up to a microphone and read a passage from my book, Sold.The scene she chose to read, informed in part by my own experiences of sexual abuse, describes the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl by an older man.There is no graphic language or obscenity in the passage; the story is told from the point of view of a child in the words of a child and conveys her confusion, terror and physical pain.
Read at www.nytimes.com
[
add
]
[
|
|
]